Daisy Chainsaw was an English

England

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 alternative rock

Alternative rock

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 band, active between 1989 and 1995. It originally featured KatieJane Garside

KatieJane Garside

KatieJane Garside is an English vocalist, lyricist, artist and writer who fronted the first incarnation of the '90s noise rock band Daisy Chainsaw and now fronts Queen Adreena, an independent rock band from London....

 as lead vocalist and lyricist on the band's early EP

Extended play

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s and debut album, Eleventeen (1992), before her departure in 1993. The band's live performances were noted for their wild histrionics

Histrionic personality disorder

Histrionic personality disorder is defined by the American Psychiatric Association as a personality disorder characterized by a pattern of excessive emotionality and attention-seeking, including an excessive need for approval and inappropriately seductive behavior, usually beginning in early...

, often featuring Garside onstage drilling doll heads and drinking juice from baby bottles. Following Garside's departure, the group's second album and subsequent EPs featured Belinda Leith on vocals, until the band's breakup in 1995. Guitarist Crispin Gray

Crispin Gray

Previously guitarist and songwriter in Daisy Chainsaw, currently with Queen Adreena and The Dogbones.-Daisy Chainsaw:*LoveSickPleasure EP , Deva Records*Pink Flower EP *Eleventeen , One Little Indian Records...

 and Garside would later reunite to form Queen Adreena in 1999.

Career

The band formed in 1989 after KatieJane Garside

KatieJane Garside

KatieJane Garside is an English vocalist, lyricist, artist and writer who fronted the first incarnation of the '90s noise rock band Daisy Chainsaw and now fronts Queen Adreena, an independent rock band from London....

 answered an advertisement placed by guitarist

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 Crispin Gray

Crispin Gray

Previously guitarist and songwriter in Daisy Chainsaw, currently with Queen Adreena and The Dogbones.-Daisy Chainsaw:*LoveSickPleasure EP , Deva Records*Pink Flower EP *Eleventeen , One Little Indian Records...

 in the music press. Their gigs

Concert

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 included grapevines and rag dolls strewn across the stage, and Garside thrashing around in soiled gowns drinking juice from a baby bottle.

The band was successful with their "LoveSickPleasure" EP

Gramophone record

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 which included the hit single

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, "Love Your Money" - primarily due to prime time appearances on ITV

ITV

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's The Chart Show

The Chart Show

The Chart Show is a music video programme which ran in the UK on Channel 4 between 1986 and 1988, then on ITV between 1989 and 1998. The production company was Video Visuals, and was credited as "A Yorkshire Television Presentation" from 1993 and 1998...

and Channel 4's The Word

The Word (TV series)

The Word was a 1990s Channel 4 television programme in the United Kingdom.-Format:Its presenters included Mancunian radio presenter Terry Christian, comedian Mark Lamarr, Dani Behr, Katie Puckrik, Jasmine Dotiwala, Alan Connor, Amanda de Cadenet and "Huffty"...

. However, they had to decline appearing on BBC TV's Top of the Pops

Top of the Pops

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because Garside had a throat infection. "Love Your Money" reached number 26 in the UK Singles Chart

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 in February 1992.

Turning down an offer to be signed to Madonna

Madonna (entertainer)

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's Maverick

Maverick Records

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 record label

Record label

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, they later signed to the indie label

Independent record label

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, One Little Indian. The follow-up singles

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 "Pink Flower" (UK number 65) and "Hope Your Dreams Come True" flopped, as did their debut album Eleventeen

Eleventeen (Daisy Chainsaw album)

Eleventeen was the only full album recorded by UK band Daisy Chainsaw featuring Katie Jane Garside as lead vocalist.-Track listing:#"I Feel Insane" – 2:41#"You Be My Friend" – 2:52#"Dog With Sharper Teeth" – 3:05#"Hope Your Dreams Come True" – 4:46...

(1992), peaking on the UK Albums Chart

UK Albums Chart

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 at number 62.

In support of Eleventeen, the band toured extensively in the United Kingdom with grunge band Mudhoney

Mudhoney

Mudhoney is an American alternative rock band. Formed in Seattle, Washington, in 1988 following the demise of Green River, Mudhoney's members are vocalist and rhythm guitarist Mark Arm, lead guitarist Steve Turner, bassist Guy Maddison, and drummer Dan Peters. Original bassist Matt Lukin left the...

, who was supporting their new release, Every Good Boy Deserves Fudge

Every Good Boy Deserves Fudge

Every Good Boy Deserves Fudge is the second studio album by the grunge band Mudhoney. It was recorded in 1991, at a time when the band was thinking of signing to a major record label, but decided to release the album on Sub Pop...

(1991), and alternative rock band Hole

Hole (band)

Hole is an American alternative rock band that originally formed in Los Angeles in 1989. The band is fronted by vocalist/songwriter and rhythm guitarist Courtney Love, who co-founded Hole with former songwriter/lead guitarist Eric Erlandson...

, who was also supporting their debut, Pretty on the Inside

Pretty on the Inside

Pretty on the Inside is the debut studio album by American alternative rock band Hole. Released August 23, 1991 on Caroline Records, it was Hole's first major label release after their formation in 1989 by vocalist/rhythm guitarist Courtney Love and lead guitarist Eric Erlandson...

(1991). Hole frontwoman Courtney Love

Courtney Love

Courtney Michelle Love is an American rock musician. Love is the lead vocalist, lyricist, and rhythm guitarist for alternative rock band Hole, which she formed in 1989, and is an actress who has moved from bit parts in Alex Cox films to significant and acclaimed roles in The People vs...

 cited KatieJane Garside as one of the "first true riot grrls" alongside herself and Kat Bjelland

Kat Bjelland

Katherine "Kat" Bjelland is an American musician who is currently the lead singer-guitarist of the band Katastrophy Wife, and is the former lead singer and guitarist of the punk rock band Babes in Toyland....

 of Babes in Toyland

Babes in Toyland (band)

Babes in Toyland was an American alternative rock band formed in Minneapolis, Minnesota in 1987. The band was formed by Oregon native Kat Bjelland , with Lori Barbero and Michelle Leon , who was later replaced by Maureen Herman in 1992...

, although none of these bands were directly associated with the riot grrl movement.

In 1993, Garside left the band and disappeared from the music scene and from the public eye. Due to her manic onstage histrionics

Histrionic personality disorder

Histrionic personality disorder is defined by the American Psychiatric Association as a personality disorder characterized by a pattern of excessive emotionality and attention-seeking, including an excessive need for approval and inappropriately seductive behavior, usually beginning in early...

 and bizarre behavior in interviews, rumours circulated that Garside had fallen into mental illness

Mental illness

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. Garside reportedly moved to a house in the Lake District

Lake District

The Lake District, also commonly known as The Lakes or Lakeland, is a mountainous region in North West England. A popular holiday destination, it is famous not only for its lakes and its mountains but also for its associations with the early 19th century poetry and writings of William Wordsworth...

 and was unheard of until 1999 when she formed Queen Adreena.

Despire Garside's departure, Daisy Chainsaw released a second album in 1994, For They Know Not What They Do, with Belinda Leith on vocals

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, and one more EP titled "You're Gruesome" with Crispin Gray replacing Leith before splitting up.

An episode of Roseanne

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Roseanne is an American sitcom broadcast on ABC from October 18, 1988 to May 20, 1997. Starring Roseanne Barr, the show revolved around the Conners, an Illinois working class family...

mentioned the band as one of Darlene Conner's favorites and revolved around the character attending one of their concerts.

After the split of Daisy Chainsaw, a band named Dizzy Q Viper was formed, made up of previous Daisy Chainsaw members, Gray, Adams and Johnson. After Dizzy Q Viper, Vapid Dolly was created, and this band was made up Dizzy Q Viper members with the addition of Hanayo

Hanayo

is a Japanese musician and artist. She is known for her playful and subversive artwork, often deeply rooted in Japanese culture. Hanayo currently lives and works in Berlin.- Career :...

 as lead vocals. The new millennium saw Garside and Gray musically reuniting to form Queen Adreena.

Albums/EPs

• "LoveSickPleasure EP" (1991), Deva Records

1. "Love Your Money"
2. "Get Real Pleasure"
3. "Sick of Sex"

• "LoveSickPleasure Maxi-EP" (1991), Deva Records

1. "Love Your Money"
2. "Pink Flower"
3. "Sick of Sex"
4. "All the Kids Agree"
5. "Room Eleven"

• Various Artists - "Volume One" (1991), Volume Records

1. "Upmanship Down"

• "Pink Flower EP" (1992)

1. "Pink Flower"
2. "All the Kids Agree"
3. "Room Eleven"

• "Hope Your Dreams Come True EP" (1992)

1. "Hope Your Dreams Come True"
2. "Propeller Punch"
3. "Queue For Tranatlantic Alien"

• "Music for People Who Have No Friends" (1992), A&M
  A&M Records
  A&M Records is an American record label owned by Universal Music Group that operates under the mantle of its Interscope-Geffen-A&M division.-Beginnings:...
  
   / Deva
  Deva (music director)
  Deva is an Indian film composer and singer. He has composed songs and provided background music for Tamil films in a career spanning about 20 years. Many know his gaana songs, written mostly using Madras Tamil. He is known as the "Father of Gaana Genre" in the Tamil film industry.Deva has composed...
  
   / One Little Indian Records blue flexidisc

1. "Propeller Punch"

• Eleventeen
  Eleventeen (Daisy Chainsaw album)
  Eleventeen was the only full album recorded by UK band Daisy Chainsaw featuring Katie Jane Garside as lead vocalist.-Track listing:#"I Feel Insane" – 2:41#"You Be My Friend" – 2:52#"Dog With Sharper Teeth" – 3:05#"Hope Your Dreams Come True" – 4:46...
  
  (1992), One Little Indian Records
  One Little Indian Records
  One Little Indian Records is a London-based independent record label that rose from the ashes of punk record company Spiderleg Records. It was set up in 1985 by members of various anarchist punk bands, and managed by ex-Flux of Pink Indians Derek Birkett. The first success came with A.R. Kane and...
  
  

1. "I Feel Insane"
2. "You Be My Friend"
3. "Dog With Sharper Teeth"
4. "Hope Your Dreams Come True"
5. "Natural Man"
6. "Love Your Money"
7. "Lovely Ugly Brutal World"
8. "Use Me Use You"
9. "The Future Free"
10. "Pink Flower"
11. "Waiting for the Wolves"
12. "Everything is Weird"

• For They Know Not What They Do (1994), One Little Indian Records

1. "The Future Free"
2. "Belittled and Beaten Down"
3. "Sleeping With Heaven"
4. "Love Me Forever"
5. "Candy Floss"
6. "Life Tomorrow"
7. "Zebra Head"
8. "Unit Shifter"
9. "Diamond of the Desert"
10. "Mosquito"
11. "Greatest God's Divine"
12. "Voice of a Generation"
13. "Looking for an Angel"

• You're Gruesome EP (1995), 95 Cheapskates Records

1. "You're Gruesome" (My Dearest World)
2. "Sir William Powers"
3. "Love Me Forever"